Hello William.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:
> Thursday, October 12, 2000, 11:28:02 AM, you [= ecs] wrote:
>
> > Yes, stay out of the ancillary services that the RSPs are currently offering
> > their clients as a value added service.
>
> I agree with this sentiment.
> [...] the one thing that has differentiated RSPs from each other is
> the
> value added services such as this. Typically the RSPs who had these
> services knew what they heck they were doing, because they had at
> least the requisite knowledge to set something like this up.
By your definition a good RSP is one who knows how to run a nameserver
etc.?
> It wasn't that big a differentiation, because learning how to do those
> things is VERY easy to do.
Yes, even I can do it. So what is the point? Keep it as some sort of
barrier? Come on, there are other ICANN accredited registrars to go to
for those who really have no idea what DNS etc. is about. And they are
not more expensive at all.
> But it kept the lazy loos who want
> everything handed to them on a silver platter and really did not have
> the knowledge and expertise (and wasn't willing to do the very simple
> things necessary to acquire them) from encroaching on the quality
> services offered by those RSPs who took seriously their mandate to be
> a value-add.
Come on, William, stop this sort of ranting. It is really way below
your normal level of conversation. It is not a matter of laziness on
my part, when I ask about plans for the future. Why should I set up
services myself when OpenSRS may be providing them? Why should I
invest time and money when they are coming soon? Is it lazy to ask if
someone else is already working on it, before I embark upon it
myself? I would think it is stupid not to ask, especially when it is
in the air.
And from another perspective: May DNS and redirecting/forwarding run
by OpenSRS not have some huge advantages over an RSP doing this on
(say) two or three machines himself? Think redundancy, think better
connections, think more uptime.
An RSP is selling a product. And supporting it. It does not mean he
has to do some special parts of it himself, because you do those
yourself. What parts of the services he is getting elsewhere is
entirely his choice. And there is lot of choice right now, as others
on this thread have pointed out.
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--
Marc Schneiders
"In re tam iusta nulla est deliberatio."
(Acta SS. Mart. Scillitanorum [AD 202])
